> I will say that when Japan agreed to accept payment of taxes, with Bitcoin, they deemed it to be money. I'm really interested in figuring out if this is true

> I will say that when Japan agreed to accept payment of taxes, with Bitcoin, they deemed it to be money. I'm really interested in figuring out if this is true. What source is saying this? From what I can tell some taxes might apply to Bitcoin in Japan but in no way can you actually "pay" taxes in Bitcoin (you can obviously convert it to Yen first though).